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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2037-1">Sylvia Woodcock</rs>
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taken<lb></lb>
before one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2037-2">Edw Read</rs>
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Esqr. one of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ438">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1272">County of Middlesex</rs>
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who being duly sworn on her oath saith. That she<lb></lb>
was Lawfully Married to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2037-3">William Woodcock</rs>
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in <lb></lb>
the Parish Church of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2037-4">Cheshant Kerts</rs>
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, that she and <lb></lb>
her said Husband have not Cohabited together for<lb></lb>
some Months. That she lived in a small Appartment<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1273">High Street</rs>
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Enfield - that on Monday last the<lb></lb>
27."Instant October her said Husband came to<lb></lb>
her and told her he had got an other lodging for<lb></lb>
her and insisted on her going with him to see<lb></lb>
it. That she left Enfeild with him about two<lb></lb>
o'Clock and stopt once on the Road and had<lb></lb>
a pint of beer. That boat Seven o'Clock in <lb></lb>
the Evening being very Dark, he took her into<lb></lb>
a narrow lane. and asked her for the key of her<lb></lb>
Lodging, which she refused to give him, saying,<lb></lb>
she must first see the Lodging he had taken,<lb></lb>
on which he knocked her down with a large<lb></lb>
Stick he had in hand and beat her about<lb></lb>
her Head and face in a most horrid manner.<lb></lb>
when she fell down, and does not know what<lb></lb>
happned to her after untill she found herself<lb></lb>
in bed in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo1274">Workhouse</rs>
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at Chelsea.</p>
<p n="2038">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
29th. Day of October 1788}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2038-1">Edw: Read</rs>
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<p n="2039">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n2039-1">Sylvia<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Woodcock</rs>
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Mark</p>
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